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Joel

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About Me

Short version: Aspiring novelist living in Vienna with wife and son. Long version: Born in Nuremburg, Germany. Grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. Elementary Schools: Chinn and Graden - Jr High: Park Hill North Jr. High School - High School: Park Hill - Colleges: Maple Woods Community College and Park College (Park University) Worked at Upsher Labs, Roche Biomedical (Labcorp) and Capgemini KCSC (aka Onesystemgroup, Ernst & Young, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, CGEY, CGEYKCSC and/or Crapgemini as the famous Al was known to call it!) Currently unemployed and would be loving it except that I'm working harder than I ever did at those aforementioned places! Married to the wonderful Anita Turpin/Wuerzlhuber from Nussbach, Austria by way of Vienna and father to one Lukas William Turpin, age 2. I like to do creative type stuff such as writing and customizing action figures as well as taking whatever photos I can lay my hands on and doctoring them up to be as compromising as possible for all parties involved :) Big news is that we have moved to Vienna, Austria and have a new apartment in the 13th District! Look for us on the other side of the pond! Oh, and I'm working on writing a fantasy trilogy. Hammering it out on the laptop while my wifey plays sugar mama (Not bad work if you can get it!)

My Interests

My wife and son, Music, Movies, Action Figures, Video Games, Books, Creative Writing, Tennis, Watching American sports (football/basketball) and much, much more.

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Music:

The Beatles first and foremost, followed by Led Zeppelin, then all others. Others include: Eric Clapton, Spike Jones, Ween, Phish, Porcupine Tree, early Elton John, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Metallica, Spock's Beard, Herbert Groenemeyer, John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Green Day, NIN, The Clash, Grant Lee Buffalo/Phillips, Alice in Chains, The Moody Blues and TOO TOO many more to list right now...

Movies:

Seven Samurai, Clockwork Orange, Singing in the Rain, Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, Real Genius, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, 2001: A Space Odyssey, My Girl Friday, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Excorcist, JAWS, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Hidden Fortress, Rio Bravo, The Searchers, The Magnificent Seven, 300, Sin City, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Great Escape, Goldfinger, Man who Would Be King, Bullitt, Raising Arizona, Mulholland Drive, Casablanca - again, too many to mention - Big movie buff here...

Television:

Scrubs, My Name is Earl, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, WKRP in Cincinnati, Sopranos, Deadwood, Night Court, Angel, Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Veronic Mars, MASH (Early years mostly) and of course, CHARLES IN CHARGE!!!

Books:

Dune, The Hobbit, Snow Crash, Anything from the Cadfael series, Lloyd Alexander's series, DR SEUSS!!! and more...

Heroes:

Captain America and my late Grandpa Bill

My Blog

Recovering from the excitement

Well, it's been a while& The last four or five weeks here in Vienna have been pretty busy.  We had visits from relatives, trips to visit relatives, sick people, parties to plan and execute, a tr...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:05:00 PST

Two parties, one appliance, one festival, three movies, one virus and hot, searing pain&

Well, Anita was gone for the weekend and God bless her for taking the opportunity!  One of her friends, Susanne (of Loosyana Vacation fame, for those who are semi-familiar with my real life short...
Posted by Joel on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:41:00 PST

Birthday celebrations and day to day humdrum

Intro: Oh my, so many goings on at Casbah Turpin here in Vienna's lovely 13th district!  We've had a weekend in upper Austria, complete with birthday party for my lovely niece, Jana.  We've ...
Posted by Joel on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:15:00 PST

35 in a new home

Last year I was in Poland, this year Vienna.  But now, Vienna is home.  Still, kinda weird to be away from KC for the birthday.  The weather here is reminiscent of the "Dog Days of Augu...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:06:00 PST

The Boy Is&

Visitors have come and gone  Marianne, Erwin, David and Patrick.  Had a good time while they were here, but it's good to have the apartment back, too.  We had room for four more, sleeping-w...
Posted by Joel on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:03:00 PST

Back in Vienna

Just dropping a quick note to say that Lukas and I are back in Vienna and getting readjusted to life in the big city.  He was SOOOO good for me on the way back.  Walked the length of the air...
Posted by Joel on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:15:00 PST

Two little lawyers

What kind of lawyer will your child grow up to be?  Perry Mason-like, in the courtroom defending everyone and proving their actual innocence?  Those guys from Law and Order, never meeting a ...
Posted by Joel on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:36:00 PST

Shining Spider, the Bat Knight and Jessicas Hermit Cave Escapade

Still blogging away here in the valley portions of good ole Switzerland.  We got out and about quite a bit over the last three days, making up for those first rain-filled evenings with a passion!...
Posted by Joel on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:19:00 PST

Working moms, Swiss trains and Dragon stories

So& Been a long time since I blogged and rolled (apologies to Led Zeppelin).  Since that time, we Turpins have done lots of work on the apartment, had a trip to visit the fam in Upper Austria, fo...
Posted by Joel on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:42:00 PST

110 in the shade

Not quite, but not far from it.  No, the thermometer over here in Austria hit a near record for the country last Friday, with 39.5 C, which is roughly 109 F.  It has since cooled down, but w...
Posted by Joel on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:55:00 PST